Watts article

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Mon Sep 27 06:35:31 CDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 06:08, jbor wrote:

> I'd be interested to hear what, precisely, the relationship between the
> 'Watts' article and Mailer's 'The White Negro' is meant to be. 


Don't know what Dave was necessarily thinking but I had in mind
something like this quick quote:

 "Hated from outside and therefore hating himself, the Negro was forced
into the position of exploring all those moral wildernesses of civilized
life which the Square automatically condemns as delinquent or evil or
immature or morbid or self-destructive or corrupt." 

Living outside the law

Ripping off the system

To boot, a model for the white would be revolutionary

Now I'm going sailing before another hurricane strikes.






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